Part III
Transfer of criminal proceedings
CHAPTER I
Delegation of competence in criminal proceedings in favour of the Portuguese judicial authorities
Article 79
Principle
At the request of a foreign State, under the conditions and with the effects set out in the following Articles, proceedings may be taken or continued in Portugal for an offence committed outside the Portuguese territory.
Article 80
Specific requirements
1. Criminal proceedings may be taken or continued in Portugal for an act committed outside the Portuguese territory, subject to the general requirements provided for in this law, as well as the specific requirements that follow:
a) recourse to extradition is excluded;
b) the foreign State must have provided guarantees that it shall not take proceedings against the person concerned, for the same facts, if a final judgement is rendered by a Portuguese court in respect of the same person and for the same facts;
c) the facts for which criminal proceedings are requested must amount to an offence under both the law of the foreign State and under Portuguese law;
d) the maximum period of the punishment, or the measure, involving deprivation of liberty that is applicable with respect to the facts must be at least one year, or the maximum level of the pecuniary sanction involved must be at least the equivalent of 30 units of account in criminal procedure;
e) the person concerned must be a Portuguese national, or otherwise must have his habitual residence in Portugal;
f) acceptance of the request must be justified in terms of either the interest of good administration of justice or a better chance of rehabilitation of the person concerned should that person be sentenced.
2. Should the requirements laid down in the preceding paragraph be met, criminal proceedings may also be taken or continued in Portugal if:
a) criminal proceedings have already been instituted in Portugal against the same person for other facts, the latter being punishable with deprivation of liberty of at least one year, and the presence of the person before the court is guaranteed;
b) the person concerned is an alien or a stateless person habitually resident in Portugal and his extradition has been refused;
c) the requesting State deems that the presence in court of the person concerned cannot be ensured in that State but can be ensured in Portugal;
d) the requesting State deems that circumstances do not allow for the execution of an eventual sentence in that State, even through extradition, and circumstances allow for the execution of an eventual sentence in Portugal.
3. The provisions of the preceding paragraphs shall have no effect if the criminal reaction on the grounds of which the request was made already falls under the jurisdiction of the Portuguese courts by virtue of any other legal provision concerning the territorial jurisdiction of Portuguese courts.
4. The requirement of sub-paragraph e) of paragraph 1 may be dispensed with in the cases described in paragraph 4 of Article 32, if the circumstances of the case so require, in particular in order to avoid a situation where the trial cannot be held neither in Portugal nor abroad.
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